A Williamstown refund depot has been named in the top five highest performing metro refund points for the container deposit scheme (CDS).
The CDS has achieved a milestone of more than 100 million containers returned, with Victorian’s pocketing more than $10 million in refunds in two months.
CDS Vic Depot Williamstown was the fourth highest metro refund point, with 1.8 million cans, glass and PET plastics returned. CDS Vic Depot Melton was Melbourne’s best-performing refund point, having returned 3.9 million cans.
Environment minister Steve Dimopoulos marked the milestone on January 11, at the new Return-It depot at South Melbourne, and said CDS is a great initiative to get people recycling.
“It’s remarkable to see so many Victorians get involved in recycling, providing 100 million containers and counting for re-use in new products,” he said.
“[This is] instead of [the containers] going to landfill or ending up in the environment and harming our wildlife.
“We’re rewarding Victorians who do the right thing, reducing litter and making sure recyclable product don’t end up in landfill.”
The CDS is processing an average of about 10 million cans, cartons and bottles across the state every week, with Victorians returning an average of 129 containers per transaction.
The biggest day to date was Friday, January 5, with 3.18 million containers returned. Mildura is leading the state in container returns having returned more than 4.1 million containers.
Details: cdsvic.org.au.
